Heroku has announced that some free products will no longer be available, beginning November 28, 2022, the following products from the Free Product Plans will be removed:
freedynoshobby-devHeroku Postgreshobby-devHeroku Data for Redis plans
They will send a series of emails to affected users. Additionally, Heroku will be removing inactive accounts starting October 26, 2022, and storage associated with accounts that have been deactivated for more than a year.
The announcement mentions that if you don't take any action on your own free application or database, or don't upgrade to a paid plan, then:
freeFrom November 28, 2022, dynos will be scaled back to 0 andhobby-devthe database will be dropped.- If you wish to upgrade to a paid product plan, there is official documentation on how to do this for Heroku Dynos , Heroku Postgres , and Heroku Data for Redis . If a backup is required, the Heroku Postgres data can be downloaded .
Officially explaining the motivation for this decision briefly, Heroku's product, engineering and security teams are putting a lot of effort into managing fraud and abuse of Heroku's free product program. In order to focus resources on delivering mission-critical functionality to customers, they decided to retire some of their free products.
For the soon-to-be-removed free product, Heroku offers alternatives for some groups:
- Student Program : More to be announced at Dreamforce in September 2022.
- Nonprofit : Currently working with the nonprofit team, will announce product next year.
- Open Source Projects: If you are the maintainer of an open source project and would like to request Heroku support for your project, you can contact the Salesforce Open Source Projects Office at [email protected] .